So is NXT banned from the Rumble now?

[Heartbreaker]

The Rumbles were ...rough to say the least. Not a shock that firing half the roster would lead to this, but nobody from NXT being used was so strange. It would have helped that boring ass men’s Rumble if we had the following:

Bron Breakker
Pete Dunne
Cameron Grimes
Tony D’Angelo
Carmelo Hayes
Grayson Waller
LA Knight
Roderick Strong

But none of these guys? So weird. I think they would have helped. Even with the women’s Rumble they could have put in Dakota, Cora, Io, Kay Lee Ray. WTF is the deal here?

[Famous Rocking Chimes]

It just hammers home that NXT is a developmental brand now rather than being placed on any kind of equal playing field as Raw and SmackDown.

[dbrussel]

Since it's pure developmental now....probably

[Totorob101]

It has to be the end for veteran NXT talent like Ciampa,Strong,Io and Dakota,none of them have a main roster future,none of them seem valued by higher ups and none of them fit 2.0 so it's only a matter of when they get cut. The younger newer talent are far to green to compete in the rumble right now so it's not a surprise they didn't feature.

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NXT is banned period, they redacted Charlotte's NXT women's title reigns from her record (Hence why she quickly started winning titles again). The only connections to NXT are when main roster guys go to their product, and the commercials.

And that one time Grayson Waller showed up and ruined a match... and that was it.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Havign one of the best women in the world on payroll and just going "Yeah we don't need to bring her in forget it" in Io says a lot about how they view NXT, but also by extension how they view Io. If NXT is a no-stars ghetto of greenhorns and player coaches, then the people who've been there for years and held onto as part of the Triple H regime solely to keep the ratings up are starting to look a bit worse off for just never making it out. It's a weird, screwy way to treat everyone and it says really dim things about how well those people who carried NXT in those years are going to be rewarded.

[mistery]

Io Shirai was backstage as a backup last night, even though she should have been in the Rumble over someone like Sarah Logan or Alicia Fox.

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

They really could've used some of the NXT women in the Rumble. Especially since all the one offs were useless and brought nothing to the match. Like if you took out Summer, Kelly, Cameron, Sarah, and Alica and replaced them with say Io, Dakota, Raquel, Ivy, and Cora the match would've been way better. Would've put some spotlight in two potential new stars to look out for in Ivy and Cora and in Io and Dakota also given the match two good veteran workers to help things run smoothly which was sorely needed in this match.

Another problem I'm noticing is they keep constantly having the same women have Iron Woman runs (Charlotte, Natalya, Bianca, Rhea) because they are the only good workers who are working full time who they can trust to keep in for long periods as every one else are either non employed women doing one offs who can't do much or main roster women who just simply aren't very good. Although this year they also trusted Liv to last close to 40 minutes which at least was different. Other then her though the other four women who did over 30 are the ones who are in it for super long times every year. I don't really get why Sasha was eliminated so quickly. I guess unless with her coming back from injury they are just being cautious and didn't want to put too much of a workload on her right away. Zelina of all people being the one to put her out also was super random. Unless I guess maybe they are going to do Zelina and Carmella against Sasha and Bayley for the tag titles at Mania since Sasha doesn't fit into any of the single title pictures any more with Ronda back.